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corolla, which is hairy near the base within. — From the Dakota.s and Wyo- 

 ming to New Mexico. 



Var. Fendleri, Gray. A commonly hirsute form, with calyx 5-tleft onl/ 

 to the middle. — Proc. Am. Acad x. 52. 



* * FiUunents narrower than the anthers, inserted either on the inanjin of the 



throat or about the middle of the tuhe : stifle included. 

 5. M. alpma, Don. A span or more high, either nearly gluhrou.s or pu- 

 bescent : leaves oblong, somewhat spatulate or lanceolate, rather olituse ; tin* 

 cauline sessile (1 or 2 inches long): flowers in a clo.se or at length Ioom.- 

 cluster : calyx-lobes equalling or ratlier shorter than the tube of the corolla : 

 anthers nearly sessile. — High elevations in mountains of Colorado and Utah. 



7. MYOSOTIS, L. F0RGET-.ME-NOT. 



Low and spreading pubescent herbs, with sessile stem leaves and small blue 

 flowers in bractless racemes. In ours the calyx is beset with hairs, some of 

 them bristly and liaving minutely hooked tips. 



1. M. sylvatica, Hoffm. Hirsute-pubescent, either green or cinereous : 

 leaves oblong-liuear or lanceolate ; the radical conspicuously jjetioled : pedicels 

 as long as the calyx or longer: calyx-lobes erect or slightly closing in fruit: 

 nutlets more or less margined and carinate ventrally at the apex. 



Var. alpestris, Koch. Stems tufted, 3 to 9 inches high : racemes more 

 dense : pedicels shorter and thicker, seldom longer than the calyx. — In higii 

 alpiue regions in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, and northward. 



8. LITHOSPERMUM, Toum. Gromwell. 



Herbs with reddi.sh roots, sessile leaves, and axillary or subaxillary or leafy- 

 bracted flowers: stamens with very short filaments, and nutlets (in ours) 

 white, smooth and polished. 



* Flowers rather small: corolla greenish-yellow, short; its tube hardli/ if at all 



longer than the cali/x, nearlij naked at the throat. 



1. L. pilosum, Nutt. Soft-hir.«ute and pubescent, pale or cane.-icent: 

 stems numerous from a stout root, a foot high, mostly simple, very leafy : 

 leaves linear and linear-lanceolate, mostly tapering from near the base to 

 apex : flowers densely crowded in a leafy thyrsus : corolla campanulatc-fnnncl- 

 form, almost 4 «iJ<^li l^"g. s^^Hky outside. — From British Columbia and Mon- 

 tana to Utah and California. 



* * Flowers most 1 1/ shoirij : corolla yellow, much exceeding the cali/z ; puln'sccnt 

 crests in the throat apparent. Plants with long and deep red roots (Pcccoon). 



■t- Corolla light ijellow : later floral leaves reduced to bracts, not surjHissing the 



cali/.r. 



2. L. multiflorum, Torr. :Minutely strigose-hispid : stems virgatc. a 

 foot or two high : leaves linear or linear-lanceolate: (lowers numerous, short- 

 pedicelled, the latter spicate : corolla narrow (.'i or 6 lines long), with vi-ry 

 short rounded loI)es and tube fully twice the length of the calyx ; the crost.s 

 or folds in the throat inconspicuous. — In the mountains from Colorado to 

 Arizona and Texas. 



